I’m not really in the mood to put together some long wordy post about this, so you get some pictures.
I hope that each of you who contributed a can lid is able to catch a glimpse of it in the broader sculpture. The sculpture itself is merely a vessel for the much more important lids. I doubt it made the trip to SP intact, but it was never about giving her some beautiful sculpture. It was about showing her the love and friendship returned to her from the community she helped build.
Thanks again for doing this! ?
My gosh! All those lids broke your keyboard in half!
Thanks for doing this, trshy. Very sweet of you.
Thank you for putting this all together, trashy.
Very nice work, but what did those can lids do to your keyboard?
Thank you so much, trashy!
Awesome job.
Thanks for this.
Most excellent. A tip o’ the tophat to you, sir.
*points to avatar*
That is quite the deal. You rock for doing this.
I’m not really in the mood to put together some long wordy post about this, so you get some pictures.
Cool. I never did learn to read good.
Feels like a tweet.
Thanks for putting this together. It looks great.
I wish I was able to make a few of my more artistic attempts work in time for the deadline. But I think the message is what was important not the container of that message.
I hope SP will have a well deserved laugh and realize what she means to this group of motley miscreants.
Agreed. After the last update, I put all of the beautifying and strengthening plans aside and did what needed to be done to get it out the door. She needs a good hearty laugh post-haste, and our redneck windchime is just what the doctor ordered.
My favorite part is that it’s taller than me. It’s egregiously tall and completely impractical.
It’s egregiously tall and completely impractical.
And it had to be because y’all sent me so many lids to work with.
You did a great job. Thanks for putting in the hard work, glad your expedited the process.
I think the message is what was important not the container of that message
Yes, but the container has its own charm.
*points to Sean’s avatar*
No doubt. I’m referring to my own final slapdash attempts.
The final product is a robber baron wickerman/windchime spawned from the depths of the Ball corporation’s worst nightmares.
Out-frickin’-standing. Thanks for doing this, Trashy!
10 Changes DeSantis Has Ordered For Disney World
10) Johnny Depp’s character will no longer wear eye shadow on the Pirates ride: Will also incorporate ex-wife Amber Heard in a redesigned auction scene.
We want the
redheadbatshit crazy blonde!I’ll say that none of the pics do it justice. It looks like a dainty little thing, but that’s 16 gauge wire. The backgrounds and the camera are washing out some of the wire detail and most of the fishing line scaffolding.
It doesn’t look any better in person, only more substantial. ??
Perfect!
Still could have benefited from some glitter. Just sayin.
*glares menacingly*
Craft herpes is not welcome in this trashcan.
But artisanal chlamydia is still OK?
Always! Extra mayo on the side, of course.
You better chain up my contribution so SP doesn’t boost it. (don’t kid yourself that hiding it on the floor will fool her).
You have no idea how many times I had to yell at my 4 year old to not touch that hazard. ? It was her favorite one of the bunch, and she didn’t understand that it had jagged edges on it.
*looks at scars from touching jagged edges*
Yeah, I would have some idea on the dangers of handling that monstrosity. Bloody fingers weren’t a patch on the emotional damage my wife did laughing at my efforts.
Ha! *imagines trying to explain this to a non-glibs*
Just shake your head and say “inside joke”.
FTFY
There are many nice ones in there…your is my favorite. Good job, Jimbo.
Cutest contribution. +1 tetanus shot
Very cool! I can see mine in there (also my avatar now).
Thanks for doing this Trashy. It is heartfelt and ridiculous at the same time. Perfect for Glibs.
Yes, this so much!
Thanks for doing this Trashy!
Thanks for doing this, I’m sure all those emails and such took a lot of time.
Trashy, this was truly a labor of love. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Fabulous! Thank you and what a brilliant idea!
You’re to thank for the inspiration!
Naw, I just nudged you along in your creative process.
Thanks to Sp and OMWC and all others that made this the bestest site.
Thanks to Moj and Trashy for the time and effort to do this work of art.
Thanks to all the Glibs for their work and support. Looking at all the rusty can lids
I’m hoping Trashy hid mine, I’m embarrassed when I see all the nice ones
Happy birthday!
Seems legit.
Today, I am announcing another $800 million to further augment Ukraine’s ability to fight in the East.
This package will include heavy artillery weapons, dozens of howitzers, and 144,000 rounds of ammunition to go with them. It also includes more tactical drones.
Just keep supplying them with weapons to prolong a war they can’t win. No need to try to negotiate peace to stop the carnage.
The rarely seen kilogross.
*Russians place bets on who can pop more trucks and depots*
Although, to be perfectly honest, I doubt much of this will show up in time to make a difference. We’ll probably just let the Poles keep it. They’ll need it, what with their new border with (de facto) Russia and all.
You forgot the extra $500 mil to the Ukrainian government. Congress doesn’t do the spending now?
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-04-21-22/h_1a72c29ea9afc3d55d804cb4d893a833
A donation of $1.3 billion has been made in your name, with your money to the Ukraine today and nobody voted on it. For Democracy!
Spectacular! Thanks for putting this together.
Such a great job! Thanks for taking this on, Trashy!
And thanks for being a proxy for some us!
Hope you guys can see the ones I wrote for you!
sorry, I didn’t think to take pictures for everyone before piling them up to send off!
Nor did I mine.
Awesome! That is just a perfect representation of the commentariat there. Hope SP gets a good laugh out of it. Good job trsh.
Instead of special snowflakes we’re special can lids.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E06/295311
Excellent, thanks trashy!
Excellent job, Trashy!
Thank you for this.
A big thanks as well to One True Athena, who graciously volunteered to submit lids on behalf of those of us with sub-doctor-level handwriting.
That is so fantastic! I am glad to see it! This was the post I needed today.
Also everyone has way better handwriting than me.
Scranton Joe sympathizes.
I know that families are still struggling with higher prices. I grew up in a family where if the price of gas went up, we felt it.
Let’s be absolutely clear about why prices are high right now: COVID and Vladimir Putin.
Actually that would be the state governments and the US government.
I would love to hear the logic on how covid caused high gas prices.
I’m more interested in how Putin time traveled back 15 months.
Hypersonic-quantum time travel! We have a HQTT gap!!!
Wait… Joe Biden is the Time Cube guy?
It all makes sense now…
That’s an impressive feat.
I’ve seen it. He’s right.
The website is probably still archived somewhere out there. It’s THE crackpot manifesto from back in the day.
Our response to covid absolutely had an effect on gas prices: giving (printing) money to people and corporations for doing nothing.
I heard on the radio yesterday that, exactly two years ago at the height of COVID shutdowns when no one was allowed to go outside, oil was $16 a barrel.
Money supply has gone up–even more so than before covid. It had to translate to inflation sooner or later. Yes, it took longer than expected but now we have it.
Covid actually drove them down in 2020.
I’d love to hear how Putin made California raise their prices $3 a gallon higher than everyone else.
You see, California is next to the Pacific ocean. The Pacific ocean is a large ocean. It is a powerful ocean. And Russia is on the other side of the Pacific ocean. So basically that’s how.
“I think everyone here recognizes how extraordinary [The Pacific Ocean] is… [The Pacific Ocean] is exciting. It spurs our imaginations, and it forces us to ask big questions. [The Pacific Ocean] — it affects us all, and it connects us all.”
You can’t save it for Arvo Links?!
Well, he would have been “growing up in a family” from 1942 – 1968 (when he graduated law school). I’m going to carve out his pre-school years, and look at gas price inflation from 1948 – 1968.
Gas prices went down some of those years, and the highest annual price increase was under 6.5%.
So Joe is full of shit.
Where dad owned the local Chevrolet dealership.
So this would include the time Chevy was making the “tri fives”.
See, gas prices did affect them. Fact checked 100% true.
Cynically that’s exactly what I thought. And it is the way “fact checking” works today too.
The MP he stole from never made PM.
Everything the man says is a lie, including “and” and “the”.* Even when his utterances happen to match reality, as they so rarely do.
*/ht Mary McCarthy
Amazing how gas prices pretty much were the same in nominal dollars from 1980-2004.
First term of his senate term coincided with the first round of gasoline lines.
That is an awesome job Trashy. Thank you for taking the time and initiative to do this.
And thanks to Athena for helping out the lid-challenged among us.
^^ Yes.
https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-repeatedly-punches-man-face-plane-bloodies-passenger/
FAFO.
Relevant.
It’s because he didn’t ear ’em.
Don’t care enough to click the video, but just from the still shots the guy looks like a douche who probably got what he deserved.
That guy deserved more of a beating. Like watching an idiot stick his arm in the lion cage.
I was at an event once where we in very close proximity to Tyson. I brought up the topic of how big of a settlement would it take for you to go provoke Tyson into hitting you. I guess we’re going to find out.
I thought this had already been well-covered ay back when. You do not FAFO with Mike Tyson – not even if you’re another professional boxer.
Flying back with the wife and kids from Maui in a few hours. We will all be very happily not wearing fucking masks in the airports and plane. Can’t believe it took two damn years to end that stupidity. Maui has been refreshingly mask free. Almost no one wearing them except for some employees at food businesses. I almost cancelled our trip here about 6 weeks back when they put in a booster requirement to eat in a restaurant on top of the other bullshit Vid measures. That lasted all of one week as they figured it would decimate their tourist industry. Thankfully they got rid of all the Vid theatrics a month ago here and we had an excellent trip. Aloha.
Don’t worry Brandon and friends are doing their level best to mask you up again.
Oh I know they are apparently trying, but I think that is just a nod to their true believer contingent of maskaholics. It was set to expire in a few weeks anyway and I think they will end up quietly dropping it and shifting to the “we really recommend you wear a mask” so they don’t totally enrage the large number of people that are absolutely done with them. The Vid hysteria has mostly outlived its usefulness to them now, although we all know that they have taken the lesson that they can get the public to bend to their will even more than they dreamed possible with the correct fear tactics.
The CEO of United just predicted that mask mandates won’t be returning.
If they bring them back, they’d better hurry.
In a few more days more it will be statistically obvious that travel mask mandates has no effect on covid.
Rates are up because of no masks. Don’t you even science, bruh?
I’ve pointed out that Vegas is basically a large airplane and we’ve had no normal uptick. Maybe it’s lack of testing or maybe it’s so mild now no one cares. But one thing is that people sitting at game tables moving to other tables, drunk, handy, etc have shown no grand death.
What we will see is all rhe maskaholics testing every 5 seconds and attributing it to a flight they may have had
I’m still in awe from when we were there last spring and the mandate was to have a mask on THE BEACH. Science!
And at least one arrest.
Was there an outside mask mandate in LA? I don’t believe there was one in SF ever although I may have just completely ignored it if there was. FWIW there are a few terrible Vid bills still in the CA Legislature, most by that asshole Pan, that haven’t been shelved yet. One is to force law enforcement to use their powers to make sure people follow public health bureaucrats at the barrel of a gun. I have already emailed my state Senator telling him he should not allow this to come to a vote. I plan on calling his office and my state rep as well to have them go against it. We need to keep up the fight now more than ever.
Surfing or windsurfing or summat, in L.A. County. Ask Adam Carolla.
Yeah, I do remember in the first month of the panic that they closed LA beaches and the cops arresting someone who dared to surf during it. They never closed the beaches up in our part of NorCal, although they did close some parking lots so that people would avoid coming to them. To beaches. Outside. In the fresh air. With massive ability to keep your distance from others if you so chose. I’m still highly disappointed there has been no reckoning for that shite.
At the very beginning of the mask mandates, some of the mountain bikers would have gaiters/bandanas ready in case they needed something that could be used as a mask. As for me, having the dog on a retractable leash made for automatic social distancing. One evening while out with the dog, however, we came across a couple of walkers and didn’t even get within 20 feet of them before they made a very conspicuous point of getting onto one of the detour sections of the trail and masking up.
They showed you how to Science™!!!11
We live in mask frigging central so at certain points I’d say 95% of people were wearing them outdoors. We never put a mask on ourselves or our kids outdoors and received a fair amount of grief for it. Multiple times people fled into the streets to not have to pass us and our semi feral maskless kids. It was utterly pathetic. It didn’t help embiggen my view of humanity, that’s for sure.
Excellent work on the… mobile? Windclanker? I’m sure it will be warmly received. For a host of reasons (stupid day job) I didn’t get a lid in the mail and now I feel left out.
We can always send an expansion pack if there are enough people who want to send more lids.
Ooh. Keep us posted. Can you craft an orphan out of wire?
“Windclanker” – that works.
Thanks for doing this, Trashy. Hoping that somehow SP gets to use a few of them. I’m sure OMWC wouldn’t mind.
What are a couple of deep cuts between friends?
There have been a few of those around here, I imagine. Verbally speaking, of course.
Thanks for the barfday wishes, all! Still haven’t made my cake yet, but I did get to have brunch with my mama. Hollandaise sauce makes everything better.
happy solar anniversary
Happy birthday! Not a fan of Hollandaise but it does put the barf in barfday.
Dafuq?!
Needs tarragon?
Paprika is da bomb. MOAR LEMON!
,blockquote>Dafuq?!
I know right?
Hey, there are plenty of folks here with impeccable taste. Someone has to speak up for the resident barbarians.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Thank you trshy from the bottom of my cold black heart for doing this. You are a gentleman and a garbage collector.
Thanks Trsh for organizing this and all of your time and work. The sculpture design is genius!
On a related note and a first for me for this site; here is a link to Green Diary: 10 “art” projects made from recycled cans.
https://greendiary.com/recycled-art-10-products-recycled-aluminum-cans.html
My personal favorite: #4 Underwear made from aluminum cans. Imagine running in them, it would be like wearing razorblade clothing.
I have a purse made from pop can tabs.
I’ve seen dresses made out of pop can tabs as well.
Searches pop can lid bikini. They were surprisingly attractive.
Thank you Trashdude
I’m a procrastinating asshole who didn’t get anything to you, but I’ll make up for it in online snark somehow.
But, why?
Seems like a really awful idea.
NASA has been ignoring Uranus. That may soon change.
Their next spacecraft will be named Bussy.
I know I’m a tulpa and a lurker, but I’ve been around since Hit-N-Run and this community has meant so much to me over the years. It’s been my news site, sanity check, and entertainment. I feel like I know so many of you and I’m just heart broken for SP, OMWC, & Webdom. I’m so sorry for all of you and wish you comfort at this time. You can never know what you’ve meant to the legion of lurkers. I’m sure they all hurt with you like I do.
Damn server squirrels, my life for an edit button, fuck off tulpa, and peace to all of you. You deserve it 10x over.
I know I’m a tulpa and a lurker, but I’ve been around since Hit-N-Run and this community has meant so much to me over the years. It’s been my news site, sanity check, and entertainment. I feel like I know so many of you and I’m just heart broken for SP, OMWC, & Webdom. I’m so sorry for all of you and wish you comfort at this time. You can never know what you’ve meant to the legion of lurkers. I’m sure they all hurt with you like I do.
Damn server squirrels, my life for an edit button, fuck off tulpa, and peace to all of you. You deserve it 10x over.